everything flowers from within

The bud stands for all things,

even for those things that don't flower,

for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;

though sometimes it is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness,

to put a hand on its brow of the flower

and retell it in words and in touchit is lovely

until it flowers again from within of self-blessing;

Kinnell, Galway

Saint Francis And The Sow